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Nezahualcóyotl ordered to build a palace to conserve flora and fauna
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The Chapultepec forest became part of Mexico City
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Workers and prisoners builded the castle for the viceroy
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The forest was used as a practice place for the cadets of the military college
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The Chapultepec Zoo was opened in 1924 by the biologist Alfonso L. Herrera.
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The second section of the forest was declared as a recreation space
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Inaugurated on 1964, as one of the first amusement parks in Mexico, under the name of Juegos Mecánicos de Chapultepec, by President Adolfo López Mateos
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The Chapultepec forest was awarded on August 12, 2019, by the World Urban Parks as the best urban park in the world in 2019
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Now the Chapultepec fair is closed due to an accident in a mechanical game
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Now the zoo has more than 1,236 specimens of 222 different species of mammals, birds, reptiles, and amphibians.
